Hair curler



July 10,1923- O. D. M CLINTOCK HAIR CURLER Filed Oct. 10 1921 id %a K M R E R wm /nm M A Q A Mm a Patented July 10, 1923.

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Application filed October 10, 1921. Serial No. 506,541.

T all 10 how it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORA D. MOCLINTOCK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 450 Ellis Street, San Francisco,

in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Curlers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention is an improved hair curler and is an improvement over my United States Patent No. 1,373,968, issued on April 5, 1921.

The object of this invention is to simplify and improve the operation and manufacture of my hair curler. Another object is to provide a curler which may be worn overnight without inconvenience or discomfort by the wearer, and which is entirely rubber covered to prevent slipping of the hair or injury thereto.

In the accompanying one'sheet of drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in section of my improved curler.

F ig.2is a side elevation of one member of 26 my curler, showing the method of engaging therein a strand of hair.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the strand of hair curled about the curler and the engaging member bent to secure the end of the strand.

Fig. 4- is a view illustrating the use of my device in forming What is termed a wave, instead of a curl.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a medial loopor eye in a member of substantially a hair-pin shape. This member is formed of soft wire indicated at 2, Fig. 1, which is surrounded by a covering of rubber as shown at 3.

The purpose of the loop or eye 1 is to engage a. strand 4 of human hair, as shown in Fig. 3, the hair being inserted through the pin members as shown in Fig. 2.

After the strand 1 is in the eye 1, a piece of rubber tubing 5 is slid over the hair-pin member until it encounters the eye 1. The strand is then wrapped around the tube 5 as indicated at 6. In this operation curls are formed, such as are worn by girls. In

Wrapping the strand of hair, the strand is 5 flattened and overlapped at each turn lasting coil, such. as is commonly worn by young ladies.

Older persons use my curler as shown in Fig. 4, in which the strand 4 is not admitted between the ends of the hair-pin member but is coiled, as at 8, around the tube 5 and held at both ends by returning the eye. 1 and the ends 7 at the ends of the tube 5.

In this operation the strands 1, instead of being flattened and overlapped as before, is twisted by the coiling operation in such a manner that the coil is in the form of a 7 helix which in turn is wrapped helically' around the tube 5.

This results when the curler is removed in an undulating strand of a Wavy appearance which does not resemble a curl.

In reducing my invention to practice and marketing it, I have found that I can dispense with tape and loops in the end of the hair-pin member, and that the device is better adaptedto use on the hair by making the hair-pin member of one strand and having it rubber covered.

I claim:

1. A hair curler comprising a rubber covered hair-pin member of soft wire provided with a medial loop, and a piece of rubber tubing adapted to surround the ends of said hair-pin member and be engaged thereon by returning the ends of said hair-pin member.

2. A hair curler comprising a rubber tube, and a flexible hair-pin member formed of soft wire and provided with a rubber covering, the said hair-pin member provided with a loop at one end larger than the diameter 95 of said tube. V

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ORA D. MOGLINTOCK. 

